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Leaking Water During Pregnancy -- Did my water just break?

published on June 20, 2013

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I’m sure there a lot of women out there who, like me, never got to experience your water breaking and contraction and all that fun that comes with having a baby. I had a scheduled c-section with my first daughter and was planning on having another one with Madysen. With my second pregnancy I still had no idea what it was like to have my water break or basically even go into labor since I never had to do that with my first pregnancy.

I had heard of women leaking water during pregnancy and although it didn’t happen to me the first time, I knew that it could. When I was 37 weeks and a few days pregnant I had noticed that I hadn’t felt any movement from Madysen for a while that day so I just laid down to do the kick counts that my doctor kept stressing were very important and I had to have at least 10 in a 2 hour span. Well, 2 hours had gone by and I felt about 1 or 2 movements from her and when I stood up to get the phone and call my doctor I felt a little trickle of something run down my leg. Truthfully I thought I had just peed myself being that I was pregnant and that happens or so I’ve heard. But I decided to call the doctor anyway just to make sure.

Of course as soon as I mentioned that the baby hadn’t been moving they wanted me to come in right away and I mentioned that I thought my water was leaking. I called my hubby who came home from work. I had my mom come over to stay with Kayla and we even brought the hospital bags with us. I kept thinking, I don’t know why I’m even bringing all this stuff because I’m just going to be told that I’m fine and to just go home and rest. But I didn’t think that it was a good thing that I was leaking water during pregnancy and thought maybe there was a chance. In the office they tested the fluid and according to my doctor it wasn’t amniotic fluid but he wanted an ultrasound done anyway. The tech took about 2 seconds to tell me my fluid was low and we were shipped to the hospital to have our daughter!